- Apr 3, 2018
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Hi guys,
Normally I build my PC's new, but due to budget constraints I was limited. I ended up finding a used but pretty new PC for sale on facebook market place.
i7 7700, GTX960, 8gb Crucial DDR4 and a decent Silverstone case. He advertised it with a 250gb hard drive, I was hoping but didn't realistically expect it to be an SSD. After a day or so of using it, I quickly realised something wasn't right. It was crashing whilst loading games. But then I realised it was crashing at desktop and just acting strange. I put it down to the fact that he had a 250gb 2.5" HDD which was dated 2006.
I waited about 2 weeks and got a 500gb SSD for it; love that!
Anyway. Installed W10. Boot up is amazing fast (never had SSD yet) and everything installed fine. I didn't run any W10 updates so it was pretty much stock from install. I installed Total War Atilla to test with. Main menu, chose a battle to test. Loaded to almost the end within a few moments, and crashed to desktop with a pink/static screen error then it recovered to desktop. Task manager reporting game running not crashed. Thought perhaps it's just that game. Ran the redistributables in the game folder to update dX9 and VC and what not. Same thing. Installed PUBG, same thing load to menu fine but crashes whilst entering the match......
Installed Total War Warhammer 2, which runs the same engine as Atilla. Same thing.
Re-installed latest drivers, re-booted, ran redistributables in the pubg folder.. same issues.
Installed Mass Effect 3 and Force Unleashed that happened to have iso's on my sub drive.
Ran perfectly! At this stage im thinking maybe its a W10 issue.
Installed W7 on the drive after format. Ran updates, drivers checked everything. And began testing. Same issue. Older games work, newer ones dont. Im starting to think at this stage that it's working with DX9, but DX11/12 isnt. I decide that it isnt a W10 issue and decide to put that back on as I know Intel 7 gen doesnt work with W7 properly.
So, im back on W10. I spent a full day running all the W10 updates hoping its a DX12 issue not up to date. I installed the 2nd most recent Nvid driver.
Same issues and im back to square one...
Does anyone have any other ideas?
I've done a bit of reading, and tried everything I can think of so far. And without another card to test with its hard to establish if its the GPU or something else.
Yes, i've tried reseating Ram and checking the power on the GPU. The fact that older games run fine leads me to less certainty...
Normally I build my PC's new, but due to budget constraints I was limited. I ended up finding a used but pretty new PC for sale on facebook market place.
i7 7700, GTX960, 8gb Crucial DDR4 and a decent Silverstone case. He advertised it with a 250gb hard drive, I was hoping but didn't realistically expect it to be an SSD. After a day or so of using it, I quickly realised something wasn't right. It was crashing whilst loading games. But then I realised it was crashing at desktop and just acting strange. I put it down to the fact that he had a 250gb 2.5" HDD which was dated 2006.
I waited about 2 weeks and got a 500gb SSD for it; love that!
Anyway. Installed W10. Boot up is amazing fast (never had SSD yet) and everything installed fine. I didn't run any W10 updates so it was pretty much stock from install. I installed Total War Atilla to test with. Main menu, chose a battle to test. Loaded to almost the end within a few moments, and crashed to desktop with a pink/static screen error then it recovered to desktop. Task manager reporting game running not crashed. Thought perhaps it's just that game. Ran the redistributables in the game folder to update dX9 and VC and what not. Same thing. Installed PUBG, same thing load to menu fine but crashes whilst entering the match......
Installed Total War Warhammer 2, which runs the same engine as Atilla. Same thing.
Re-installed latest drivers, re-booted, ran redistributables in the pubg folder.. same issues.
Installed Mass Effect 3 and Force Unleashed that happened to have iso's on my sub drive.
Ran perfectly! At this stage im thinking maybe its a W10 issue.
Installed W7 on the drive after format. Ran updates, drivers checked everything. And began testing. Same issue. Older games work, newer ones dont. Im starting to think at this stage that it's working with DX9, but DX11/12 isnt. I decide that it isnt a W10 issue and decide to put that back on as I know Intel 7 gen doesnt work with W7 properly.
So, im back on W10. I spent a full day running all the W10 updates hoping its a DX12 issue not up to date. I installed the 2nd most recent Nvid driver.
Same issues and im back to square one...
Does anyone have any other ideas?
I've done a bit of reading, and tried everything I can think of so far. And without another card to test with its hard to establish if its the GPU or something else.
Yes, i've tried reseating Ram and checking the power on the GPU. The fact that older games run fine leads me to less certainty...
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